Wis. Stat. § 601.57 Study and Rules On Health Insurance Identification Cards

• Library: Wisconsin Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 86
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Wis. Stat. § 601.57

(1) STUDY.

(a) The commissioner, in consultation with the department of health services, shall study the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of requiring every health insurer to issue to its insureds uniform machine-readable health insurance identification cards and to establish a computerized support system for the cards that will accept and respond to electronically conveyed requests from health care providers for information related to an insured, such as eligibility, coverages and authorizations. The study shall consider the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of including the medical assistance program under subch. IV of ch. 49 in the system of identification cards and the computerized support system and the feasibility of using those systems to coordinate the pa...